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W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

Life wouldn΄t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.



Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one΄s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

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